With the assistance of the British Broadcasting Corporation the British authorities in Palestine have developed, during the course of the last three years, what is now, in regard to programmes, equipment and personnel, the most important broadcasting service in the Near East. The three languages used, English, Arabic and Hebrew, are not rigidly separated, the times allotted to each being carefully dovetailed into each other; while there is overlapping, there is no confusion. Special attention is paid to musical programmes. The Jewish taste is for European music, but a great deal of time is given to Arab music also. Before the institution of broadcasting in Palestine, Arab music was confined to the unwritten, unrecorded performances of local players and singers. Now purely Arab music, as sung and played in the country districts, is regularly recorded with portable apparatus or preserved on paper in written notation. In proportion to the population, Palestine has probably more musical talent available than any other country in the world, and the Palestine Orchestra and the Choral Society attain a very high standard in their performance of classical music. Stories based on local folklore have now been dramatized, and these as well as other plays translated from other languages are played by voluntary teams of actors. Local talent is warmly encouraged, and an entirely new art-form in the Arab language is being fostered. In the more practical fields of local effort the Palestine Broadcasting service gives valuable guidance to farmers and other workers, as well as excellent news services: and in order to bring entertainment and instruction to the peasant, communal receivers have been installed, free of charge, in meeting places and guest houses in a large number of villages,
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